ILL-TREATMENT OF KUT PRISONERS
« , '. EURASIAN CHARGED \\ ITH . INHUMANITY-. London, July 15. A fclory of revolting cruelty and treachery was' revealed at a. court-martial at which Fratel, a Eurasian warrant-officer. , was charged with gross inhumanity and neglect of prisoners from Kut-el-Amara in tho Bagtscho Hospital. It was alleged that Fratel kicked a dying man, while dead men were .'lung hy Greek orderlies into the mortuary, mostly nakeo. and wore afterwards buried in shallow graves, from which jackals dug them up and gnawed the bodies. Yho prosecution suggested that Fratel, Iwlieving the British were defeated, sought to ingratiate himself with tho Turks.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assh. LA Eurasian is a person' cf mixed European and Asiatic Wood. 'Iho term is commonly applied to half-caste Indians.!
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 251, 17 July 1919, Page 5
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121ILL-TREATMENT OF KUT PRISONERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 251, 17 July 1919, Page 5
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